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📝RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS, PARENTS, & KIDS! 📚


​Weekly Literacy Tracker for Parents

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Literacy Joy Meter​

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​Your child’s literacy doesn’t start with them. It starts with you. The single biggest predictor of a child’s reading success isn’t flashcards, apps, or workbooks — it’s the language environment the adults around them create every day. This checklist flips the lens. Just an honest look at the small things you did this week that quietly shaped a reader.

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​Most literacy checklists ask what your child can do.

This one asks something different: how does it feel? The Literacy Joy Meter is a weekly reflection tool for parents and early years educators — rated on a scale from dread to delight. Do they love language? A child who loves words will always find their way to reading.

Story Idea - Quick Sheets Bundle
Grades 3-5
Common Core Standards W.3.3, W.4.3, W.5.3
Monster Character Worksheet Bundle
​Grades 3-5
Common Core Standards W.3.3, W.4.3, W.5.3
Worksheets

Easy world-building, writing prompt worksheets (9 total). Pictures spark ideas and your students take it from there developing a framework for narrative writing. ​Printable & digital!

​Monster Paragraph Worksheet Bundle
Grades K-2
Common Core Standards W.K.2, W.1.2, W.2.2
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Get your youngest students writing paragraphs with these fun monster prompts. Name the beast. What does it eat? Where does it live? What are its talents, hobbies, defense against predators, etc ... (14 total)! Let their imagination go wild crafting character-based paragraphs! Printable & digital!
Worksheets
Students will love these hand-crafted, character development monster sheets (10 total)! Let their creativity shine crafting character-based narratives! Printable & digital!
Connecting with Grandparents
Grades 2-5
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Connecting to grandparents provides students with valuable information about the history of their families and themselves. Use these questions and writing forms to help students make connections and foster speaking and writing skills.
Paste Painting
How to make homemade paste paint.
​Grades PK-5. Great lesson for Homeschoolers!

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Diversity Handout

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How to Create "an educational" Board Game
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​​Make memorization fun and exciting! Design a captivating board game that ignites enthusiasm in children who may be struggling with specific skills. Unlike online games, nothing beats the engagement of a hands-on learning experience. When kids create their own game, their motivation to play—and learn—soars! This method is proven to work wonders! Establish a strong foundation for learning by incorporating daily game practice. Focus on essential areas such as addition facts, multiplication, sight words, phonics, vocabulary, and foreign languages.
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